The major staple food crops production is not able to fulfill food requirement of the global
population due to relatively higher population growth rate in developing countries. The …

In the past 20 years, very little progress has been achieved in reducing food insecurity, child
malnutrition and hunger in Africa. Under-nutrition and micronutrients deficiencies are …

Pseudocereals are promising crops for coming decades keeping in view the global food
security. Amaranths are a leading group of plants among the pseudocereals that have the …

A taxonomic revision of the genus Amaranthus (Amaranthaceae) in Italy is here presented.
Field surveys were carried out during the period 2006–2014. 58 herbaria (both European …

Previous phylogenetic work investigating the origins of the grain amaranths is plagued by
two methodological faults. Primarily, no study to date has adequately sampled all of the …

Amaranthus is a cosmopolitan genus comprising large number of species with many
morphotypes cultivars/accessions having diversified morphological features. The species …

We assessed the molecular genetic diversity and population structure of Amaranthus
species accessions using 11 simple sequence repeat markers. A total of 122 alleles were …

Amaranthus species are an emerging and promising nutritious traditional vegetable food
source. Morphological plasticity and poorly resolved dendrograms have led to the need for …

Amaranth has acquired great economic impact as functional food, with species originating
from Mexico dominating global trade. In contrast, the Peruvian A. caudatus (kiwicha) has …

The present article represents the fourth contribution of a series whose final aim is to gain an
understanding of the complicated nomenclature of the genus Amaranthus. The investigation …